Google coming over here and taking our jobs

[aotagain]

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This is nothing to do with affiliate stuff really.

Google defaulting to world search seems to have become permanent.
You have to physically switch to UK and of course if you're not logged in it keeps reverting.

So shops over here, especially smaller ones, suddenly find themselves relegated to page 5, while some business in Colorado or Florida appears way up.

I reckon its creating an unfair market, because the same thing can't be done back to the US sites - they've got more visitors, more clout etc. etc.

Most internet users I speak to don't realise what's happening - they're just fed up with the constant changes and having got rid of the spam, they've now got another sort of spam - irrelevant countries.

I presume they would say its a 'global economy' or something like that. Whether that's believeable or not, well... ?

Surely they've detected by now that folks will be getting really p.....d off shopping and seeing results in $

[Iain84]

I've been noticing this a lot more recently. Even WITH being logged in, it still reverts back to normal. Hopefully they'll sort this before too many people get upset and switch to Yahoo or Bing!

[pustema]

before too many people get upset and switch to Yahoo or Bing!

I WISH!!! they are soooo easy.

[allthediscounts]

Personally, I think they have it badly wrong.

Whilst you might want to look at things globally in general, shopping for most items is still restricted to GB due to the logistics of purchasing overseas.

You wouldn't want to buy an item, pay for air freight, wait 2 weeks for delivery, pay customs charges, VAT and and admin fee for an iPod would you?

Any heavens forbid you should order your groceries from WallMart!

[aotagain]

Well it does potentially open up the UK more to sites which aggregate UK shops in some way that consumers like and bookmark. ie. if they get more and more frustrated, they're more likely to use a site that takes the hassle out of searching.

Only problem is, to get a site known without relying 100% on Google and SEO is going to cost in offline advertising of some sort.

If you could rely on Google to deliver visitors while you build up a site it would be different.